Dear Mr. Xi Jinping, Tashi Delek and Ni hao, I think I shouldn’t say, how are you? Because for the past few years you are sleeping with your one eye opened. I heard through the Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, that you have earned more enemies than friends, more death-wishers than well-wishers, and more fear than respect from your party…
Once I watched a Chinese movie called The Flowers of War, which depicts the horrors of war atrocities in Nanjing when Imperial Japan occupied the Chinese city in 1937. In one of the most heart-rending scenes from the movie, a Chinese woman with her hands tied was repeatedly raped by Japanese Imperial troops. In the end, a Japanese soldier stabbed her…
DHARAMSHALA: “Tibet has become a place unimaginable for people living outside China, for every step that you take and every move that you make is censored and could possibly place you in interrogation camps,” said Rigzin (name changed to protect identity) who recently arrived in India from Tibet. He recounted how the authorities there inspected everything from what was being said…
Today is the 62nd anniversary of the 1959 Tibet National Uprising Day – the Chinese military at the time brutally cracked down on Tibetan’s nationwide peaceful protests against the Chinese Communist Party’s militarily occupation of Tibet on the 10th March 1959. Subsequently, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and more than 80,000 Tibetans fled to India seeking political asylum. And…
After more than two months of reaching an agreement in principle on 30th December 2020, the negotiations for a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) between the EU and China, the European Commission is still facing strong criticism and protests from the European Parliament and various rights groups. The agreement nevertheless needs an approval from both the European Parliament and the…
February 21 has been marked by UNESCO as a day for people to celebrate their mother tongues – but Tibetan is suppressed On February 21, 1952, in what was then East Bengal (renamed East Pakistan in 1956 and Bangladesh in 1971), many students were martyred for voicing their concerns and the protection of mother language, Bengali, under the government of…
The recent political crisis and split in the ruling Communist Party threaten Beijing’s strategy in the Himalayan state Basking in the glory of a massive electoral victory in Nepal, the merger of the two Communist parties (Unified Marxist–Leninist and Maoist Centre) in 2018 appeared then as a triumphant era for the Communist movement in the Himalayan state and also the…
Tashi Wangchuk, a campaigner of Tibetan language from Gyêgu, the Kham Province of Tibet (now the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture), was released from prison after serving his sentence on January 28. On January 27, 2016. Tashi Wangchuk was taken away by the Chinese police and later arrested and indicted for “endangering national security.” The cause was his interview with the…
The “Tibet Autonomous Region” (TAR) has recently concluded its “two sessions” dubbed as the TAR People’s Congress and the TAR People’s Political Consultative Conference. The 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th TAR People’s Congress announced leadership reshuffle in the TAR Party and Government departments. Pema Wangdue (b.1967), who was a former Party Secretary of Lhasa municipality…
In November last year, a man struck a woman with a steel bar and killed her outside a hospital in China’s Fujian Province. Later, he justified his actions to the police by saying that he attacked her because she was small and alone, and he was venting his anger after a dispute with a colleague. To the casual observer, it…
The outgoing US President Donald Trump has signed an omnibus bill that contains the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 into law on 27 December 2020, making it the official policy of the U.S government despite China’s protest. It is another strong bipartisan support for Tibetan people by US Congress and the White House before the end of the…
Lung [Tib: rLung] means air or wind, and Ta [Tib: rTa] is horse. So, Lung-ta means an air-horse or wind horse. It is a divine horse to lift our energy and life force and carry our message to the gods and deities.If you happen to visit any Tibetan settlements or villages, your eyes will be greeted first with colorful flags…
By Tenzin Younten,* TPI Research Intern Despite more than sixty years military invasion of independent Tibet and East Turkestan (Ch. Xinjiang) by People’s liberation army of Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Gross human rights violation, massive crackdown and mass internment of Uighur Muslim peoplecontinue unabated. Prominent scholars and experts have debated in recent years over the motives and the implications of…
Trainings and relocations of Tibetan nomads and farmers are aimed more at political stability than poverty alleviation. Recently, Chinese authorities declared a “major victory” in poverty alleviation in Tibet. It is imperative to assess how the anti-poverty campaign has been carried out, in view of the recent reports of Xinjiang-like coercive labor trainings being implemented in the region. As a…
China’s ‘Great Wall of Concrete’ damming rivers sourced on the Tibetan Plateau threatens downstream countries With the recent signing of the Tibet Policy and Support Act by the president of the United States, which also addresses the strategic importance of the Tibetan Plateau, whose rivers remain one of the major sources of water to more than a billion people living…